As part of its Ukraine
focus 2019, the East European Film Bulletin is preparing a special issue on the
films of Kira Muratova. We
are looking for contributions on the films discussing and contextualizing their
censorship, fabrication, and their role in the construction of a national
Ukrainian film-identity.

With a film career
spanning over 50 years, Muratova saw radical changes in her homelands, from the
Kingdom of Romania where she was born in 1934, to the port city of Odessa where
she spent most of her career. Near the end of her life, she supported the
Euromaidan protesters and called for a pacifist Ukrainian revolution. She died
in 2018 at the age of 83, having contributed a filmography of 44 surprising and
radical films to this world.

The East European Film
Bulletin is particularly interested in essays reevaluating major themes in her
work, especially as they relate any of the following films:

By the Steep Ravine (У Крутого Яра,
1961)

Brief Encounters (Короткие встречи, 1967)

The Long Farewell (Долгие проводы,
1971)

Among Grey Stones (Среди серых
камней,1983)

The Asthenic Syndrome (Астенический
синдром, 1989)

Three Stories (Три истории,1997)

Proposals of 250 words
should be sent to editors@eefb.org by Wednesday, May 15, 2019. A
selection of the published papers is scheduled to be
republished as part of a print edition of its regional focus on Ukraine 2019.